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one specimen, from Nubia, in the collection, which is a female 

 or yomig male of Ruticilla titys. 



Sylvia mesoleuca, Ehr. fol. ee, is a distinct species from 

 Ruticilla phanicurus, diflFering chiefly in having a white patch 

 on the wing, and approaches very closely to, if it is not identical 

 with, Ruticilla hodgsoni,'Moore (P. Z. S. 1854, p. 26, pi. Iviii.). 

 There is but one specimen, from Djedda, of which it may not 

 be out of place to give the following description : — Forehead, 

 lores, ear-coverts, sides of neck, throat, and upper part of the 

 breast glossy black ; a broad white frontal band behind the 

 black forehead ; crown, nape, and mantle blackish or dusky 

 slate ; nmip and upper tail-coverts rusty red ; rectrices rather 

 darker red, the two central ones with the inner web, except 

 at the base, and the outer web dusky ; quills blackish brown, 

 all excepting the first edged with white on the central portion 

 of the outer web, forming a patch about 1^ inch in length, 

 the white margin being largest on the innermost quills ; lower 

 parts from the throat ferruginous red, deepest on the breast, 

 and palest on the lower tail-coverts, and whitish in the centre 

 of the abdomen ; lower wing-coverts rusty red. Culmen 0*5 1 

 inch, wing 3"16, tail 2*4, tarsus 085. 



Of Ruticilla phcenicurus, in the Hemprich and Ehrenberg 

 collection there are an adult and a young bird from Nubia, 

 one from Syria, and one from Arabia. 



Sylvia lypura, Ehr, fol. ee. The type, a young bird from 

 Abyssinia, is certainly an immature specimen of Cercomela 

 melanura (Riipp.), Gray, Hand-list, no. 3242. 



In conclusion we must express our extreme appreciation 

 of the very ready manner in which Dr. Cabanis gave us access 

 to the collection and rendered us eveiy assistance in his power, 

 permitting us to enter the museum at all hours, and giving 

 us duplicate keys to the cases, so that we could take out and 

 examine the types at our leisure. 



